Job Description

• Serve as a Mission Engineering and Operational Analysis subject matter expert directly supporting Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, Military Services, Intelligence Community partners, and analytic institutions.
• Leverage operational experience and established relationships within warfighter and planning organizations to accelerate study initiation, validate mission constructs, and ensure analytic credibility.
• Coordinate the collection of authoritative operational, intelligence, threat, and planning data needed to build mission context, scenarios, and analytic artifacts.
• Facilitate alignment between mission owners and engineering teams, ensuring assumptions, constraints, and planned analyses match real‑world mission execution.
• Support validation of architectures, mission threads, and modeling assumptions through continuous engagement with stakeholders and subject‑matter authorities.
• Provide operational insight to improve the fidelity of mission engineering products, including mission characterization, MET/MT development, and M&S design.
• Maintain documentation of stakeholder engagements, data lineage, analytic assumptions, and coordination workflows to support repeatable, transparent ME practices.

• 15 years of experience in military operations, operational planning, intelligence support, mission engineering, or operational analysis within DoD organizations.
• 7 years of direct experience working with Joint Staff, CCMDs, Service component staff, or IC organizations in mission planning, capability development, or operational analysis roles.
• 3 years supporting mission engineering, concept development, mission thread creation, scenario development, mission characterization, or constructive analysis efforts.
• Demonstrated experience collecting, validating, and synthesizing authoritative operational and threat data from warfighter and intelligence organizations.
• Working knowledge of Joint operational constructs, planning processes, and multi‑domain mission execution.
• Proven ability to communicate complex operational issues to engineering teams and represent technical findings to operational decision-makers.

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Engineering, National Security Studies, Intelligence Studies, or related technical discipline; OR
• Certificate from advanced Professional Military Education (PME) relevant to Military Training and/or Military Planning.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Experience with enhanced security efforts highly desired.